New Age Movement (NAM) has many subdivisions but is generally a collection of eastern-influenced metaphysical thought systems. In NAM, man is central. He is viewed as divine, as co-creator and the hope for future peace and harmony. It is religious system with 2 basic beliefs: Evolutionary Godhood and Global Unity.
Evolutionary Godhood
This is the next step in evolution from physical evolution to spiritual evolution. It has practices that push one ahead into astral projection, which is training your soul to leave your body and travel around; contacting spirits so that they may speak through you or guide you; or using crystals to purify your body’s and mind’s energy. Visualization is where you use mental imagery to imagine yourself as an animal, in the presence of diving being or being healed of sickness, etc. It also means that mankind will soon see itself as God. NAM teaches that man’s basic nature is good and divine. Man is divine by nature; he then has divine qualities.
Global Unity
There are 3 major divisions: Man with Man, Man with Nature, and Man with God. God is impersonal who will not reveal himself nor will he have a specific requirement as to morality, belief, and behavior. There are no moral absolutes in the New Age. The believers of this movement are looking for a world leader who will unite the world into a spiritual unity—a one-world religion.
Problem Question:
Bible’s answer to this problem question: The Bible teaches us that the God is not an impersonal absolute, but an infinite, personal Creator. He is set apart from His creation. His nature and characteristics such as sovereign, merciful, gracious, goodness, immutability, love, wrathful (intensely hates sin), justice exists 100% in himself. Whatever God has, God is and so all His attributes can be summed up in one word Holy – meaning completely separated from sin. God being Holy (though He is loving, compassionate, merciful), will by no means leave the sinner unpunished. How is forgiveness meted out by God? For this, God already made a provision 2000 years ago through his Son Jesus who died on the cross on our behalf assuming the full liability of our actions. Our sin was imputed on Him, and He paid the penalty. Christ death on the cross served to cleanse us of our sins and at the same time allay God’s wrath and satisfy God’s demand for justice. The past, the present and the future – all meet at the cross of Jesus.
As the Hymn goes…
Man of sorrows, Lamb of God
By His own betrayed
The sin of man and wrath of God
Has been on Jesus laid
Sent of heaven God’s own Son
To purchase and redeem
And reconcile the very ones
Who nailed Him to that tree
Now my debt is paid,
It is paid in full
By the precious blood
That my Jesus spilled
Now the curse of sin
Has no hold on me
Whom the Son sets free
Oh, is free indeed
Man Of Sorrows – Hillsong Auf Deutsch
Reasoning Generation 